Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb. Fī bayān al-murabbaʻāt.
اصول الهندسة والحساب. في بيان المربعات

Authors

• Euclid
• Yazdī, Muḥammad Bāqir Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn, active 17th century
  يزدي، محمد باقر بن زين العابدين

Other related names

• Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274, translator
  طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد،
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 64
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13615973
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076493432
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_064.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13615973

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1638

Place

Iran?

Summary

Copy of Euclid's Elements with several pages of commentary included at the end.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 1v).
   

Extent

159 leaves : 250 x 130 (175 x 67) mm, bound to 250 x 130 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left, some taped over.

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather with blind stamped central mandorla, two pendants along the vertical axis and frame.

Layout

21 long lines with marginalia; diagrams on almost every page, set in text and in the margins.

Script

Nastaʻliq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Geometry--Arab countries--History
• Geometry--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Manuscripts

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Elements